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Lot's wife [biblical figure] ( - )

In the Bible, the wife of Lot is a figure first mentioned in Genesis 19. The Book of Genesis describes how she became a pillar of salt after she looked back at Sodom. She is called "Ado" or "Edith" in some Jewish traditions, but is not named in the Bible. She is also referred to in the New Testament at Luke 17:32. Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lot%27s_wife Relationships: Lot [Biblical figure] ([?]-[?]) was a husband of Lot's wife [biblical figure]
Linked print sources: as Mentions or references - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
as Mentions or references - Geschichte der Deutschen in England von den ersten germanischen ansiedlungen in Britannien bis zum ende des 18. jahrhunderts..
 References in Documents:
A Catalogue of the Rarities To be seen at Don Saltero's Coffee-House [1775] 538 Lot and his Family coming out of Sodom, with his Wife turned into a Pillar of Salt.
[Travel Diary of Georg Christoph Stirn of Nuremberg, includes description of the Tradescant collection, as well as those in the tower and at Oxford] a piece of the salt pillar (of Lot's wife?)
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

In the Musæum Tradescant are mentioned Pieces of Stone from Apollo's Oracle, Diana's Tomb, &c. which may keep me in Countenance for reciting what follows. A Stone from Jacob's Well, Another from the River Euphrates. A Bit of that called Jonah's Rock, of which Mr. Gordon well observes (Georg. Gram. p. 269.) that, though it be doubtful whether the ruinous old Monument, known by that Name, was erected upon that Occasion; yet it is highly probable, that this individual Part of Scanderoon Bay, was the very Place of the Whales Delivery, it being the nearest to Nineveh of any in the Levant. This was brought from thence, and given me by James Winter of Berwick, Surgeon to a Man of War for Turkey. Also a Bit of Stone that himself broke off Lazarus's Tomb. A small Fragment of the Pillar of Salt that is shewed to Travellers, as that into which Lot's Wife was converted from amongst the Collections of Mrs. Sarah Speering. To these may be added a Stone from St. Winifred's Well, with the indelible Spots of her Blood, but should have been placed (if not mislaid) as St. Hilda's Snakes amongst the natural Stones.